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IGN to scrub Filip Miucin from site almost completely after even more plagiarism surfaces (READ OP)
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I feel like the linked in thing is like shooting a C-130 at a pigeon at this point.
He's dead. His professional life is over.
Let it be.
There is nothing worse to find.
He's dead. His professional life is over.
Let it be.
There is nothing worse to find.
Literally word for word. What an embarrassment this guy is.
This dude is the biggest joke on planet Earth. What the fuck, he can't even write his own resume.
This is enough shit to now write a movie around. That's not even an exaggeration. I could actually write a 100 minute movie about this.
I'm waiting for the biggest plagiarism of all to come out...that Filip Miucin isn't his real name and he lifted it from somebody else
only thing left that he hasn't stolen
only thing left that he hasn't stolen
He wanted people to find shit. Is the only explanation.
But to what end
The shade is because IGN has a history of hiring people based more on their content personality than their writing skills. WHile a company called Giantbomb looks for both, especially when being able to talk in audio/written format. Look at Max Scofield, guy has a pretty decent writing background but is known more from his personality on podcast's,video's at destructoid and rev3 games.
Dan ryckert came from Game Informer and wrote a lot of stuff before he even got into doing more video's/podcasts.
Brian Altano may have been writing for IGN prior to his skits with greg miller, but honestly was more known for his personality on podcast and up at noon. Which is where heather is kind of coming from when it comes to hiring based on writing ability.
If they had looked at his stuff more closely they could have caught this especially on his copied resume. But they primarily were looking at his video/youtube content. Which has been an issue the last couple years with content creators who cover video games. A lot of these youtubers don't even have proper Etiquette on the information they acquire to make their videos. They just think linking content from someone else's video is good enough. When that person probably got it from someone else in a forum/another video etc.
Giant Bomb has a really good staff when it comes to original written content. Which is why their stuff takes longer especially reviews. They don't do as many, because of time.
I know its been said before, but I'm baffled: What did he hope to achieve with this? Seriously. Coming off as if the Dead Cells review was the only thing he had plagiarized knowing very well there was a plethora of content he had copied from others.
Umm.. I legit thought his name was Flip until now.
By reading your post I realised there was a i that I was missing
Lol. When i saw copied a LinkedIn template, I thought people meant using the formatting (which is why the templates exist). I did not think it meant he literally took the template verbatim. Are we sure he even had that job?
It looks like something straight out of the Cold War. His identity was forged and he was just acting to tarnish IGN's reputation and improve Kotaku's. There was never a Filip in the first place, that's why we don't know anything about him.
How could have IGN missed that he plagiarized from IGN.
I was going to say none of this blame should go on IGN but come on.
Also once again if you ever listened to this guy on NVC and the colleagues around him should have known this guy is clueless. If a listener like me can tell why the hell couldn't the people closer to him.
I was going to say none of this blame should go on IGN but come on.
Also once again if you ever listened to this guy on NVC and the colleagues around him should have known this guy is clueless. If a listener like me can tell why the hell couldn't the people closer to him.
Not anymore, dude is going to just vanish from the internet and work in a coal mine for the rest of his life.
Okay, first off, fucking lol, he plagiarized his resume. Come the fuck on, this is bordering on satire at this point.
Your story about your students definitely warmed my heart! You're awesome for teaching them how to properly express themselves.
See, I still wouldn't say it's easy. I enjoy writing, I love doing it. I love video games. I make really long ResetEra threads. They aren't easy to make. They're enjoyable, and I am sure that they would be enjoyable for someone who loves writing, is good at it, and writes about games (that they also presumably enjoy). Enjoyable doesn't mean easy, it just means you're, well, enjoying what you are doing.
Absolutely. I know how much I personally pride and take ownership of my writing. I've been plagiarized before by some person with an underhanded sense of morals. Plagiarism is the lowest of the lows.
That's the amazing thing, isn't it? He didn't catch his own errors as he read them out loud. That to me is what speaks the most about his writing capacity.
Absolutely. The bare minimum for a college essay is "meet the word limit", and most don't bother going beyond that. As you point out, few are aware that actual writing requires far more than that.
Thank you. It's just something that was starting to bug me, as someone who writes a lot. I actually do find it enjoyable, but I forgot how much I take it for granted that I can do it when I started working with people who can't write, and I was coaching them on the basics. Which is why the posts here, which are generally well considerate of things like this, were rubbing me the wrong way.
I definitely agree with you on all of that. The basic hope would be that someone who works at IGN could write well, it is now clear Filip can't even write, let alone write well. As you also point out, people in sophisticated academic fields have struggles with writing. It's definitely not as easy as it seems haha.
Your story about your students definitely warmed my heart! You're awesome for teaching them how to properly express themselves.
Oh god, even the description for what he studied at one of the colleges he attended is just copied and pasted from this site about computer science lmao
http://www.studentsreview.com/major/major_description.php3?mdkey=69&d_name=Computer+Science
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All this could've been avoided with a "I'm sorry for my actions and hope to regain your trust eventually " instead of "i didn't do it intentionally and Kotaku is full of shit and I dare them to find anymore examples" (paraphrasing)
People would've forgotten by now and the examples would've likely remained unearthed
People would've forgotten by now and the examples would've likely remained unearthed
People say it's bad for IGN and everything, but, I guess as a bit of a possitivity, anybody else found themselves sympathising with IGN like never before with this whole mess? Seeing so much personal response and stuff kinda humanized them a little, when otherwise it's really easy to just resort to memes...